1. Building trust in the information infrastructure -- 2. Need for morality and ethics -- 3. Building an ethical framework for decision making -- 4. Security, anonymity, and privacy -- 5. Software standards, reliability, safety, and risk -- 6. Network basics and securing the network infrastructure -- 7.Security threats and vulnerabilities --8. Security policies and risk analysis -- 9. Security analysis, assessment, and assurance -- 10. Access control, authentication, and authorization -- 11. Perimeter defense; the firewall -- 12. Intrusion detection and prevention systems -- 13. Security in wireless systems -- 14. Biometrics for access control -- 15. Digital evidence and computer crime -- 16. Digital crime investigation and forensics -- 17. Trends in information assurance.